osx recovery mode on vmware

osx recovery mode on vmware

solution

Start the guest with the VM menu using “Power on to BIOS” option.
Select the “EFI Internal Shell (Unsupported option)” entry
Run the following command from the EFI Shell prompt:
fs2:\com.apple.recovery.boot\boot.efi
I have been looking at how to do this without booting to recovery mode by altering the VMware guest’s nvram file used to store the EFI firmware settings. Early days but it is possible to do, but will need some coding to make robust.